If you have a loved one who receives care in a nursing home, you probably have some reasonable expectations for the quality of that care. If your loved one is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia, you may have expectations regarding the...
Month: August 2020
How can nursing home prevent falls?
If you have an elderly loved one in a nursing home, you expect them to be safeguarded from certain risks. Many elderly people have a high risk of experiencing a damaging fall, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Approximately 300,000 older...
Assessing fault for car and bicycle collisions
The Maryland Highway Safety Office reports that there are approximately 816 bicycle crashes each year. About 80% of these result in serious injury or death. These generally fall into two categories — falls and collisions. The stakes of these crashes rise precipitously...
What is negligent entrustment?
Every time you climb behind the wheel of your car and take to Baltimore County's many roads and highways, you run the risk of experiencing a car accident. Yet this is a risk that you may view as acceptable given your belief that the other drivers you encounter on the...
Is the first settlement in an accident enough?
After a severe injury like a car accident, a fast settlement offer may seem like a blessing, but is it? Victims often do not understand the full cost of their injuries, which means that they usually do not know if the settlement they are looking at is fair. How can...